Scouts Watching Bocchi Ball!/FOS College Basket Picks!

Scouts Go To Center For Individuals with Physical Challenges!!

Last week I was told by numerous teammates that scouts were coming to watch our practices!!  I was told to be on my best behavior and watch what I say and do!!  Wow, Bocce Ball scouts coming to see our Bocce Ball players!!  Do you think they may want me to join an AAU Bocce Ball team and travel the world??!!  Will I be interviewed by the Tulsa World’s Bill Haisten or by Doug Gottlieb on CBS radio??!!  I was so excited last Friday, I put on my best Center T-shirt and wore my sweat pants with no holes and glow in the dark stripes on the side!!  As I nervously warmed up someone said the scouts are here and to my shock and happiness they were not Bocce Scouts but Marquette Boy Scouts from a Troop in midtown Tulsa!!  Oh, boy did we have fun!!  Our team had a some young scouts who made great shots!!  We won 13-0 and 9-0!!  Marquette Scouts rule!!

FOS Food Critics Corner ***** Five Star Rating

We had dinner at LaSalles in downtown Tulsa!  The atmospherewas trendy but quaint. The food was very New Orleansish!!  Service was Ok and the Beans and Rice were good!!  My board members and my wife and I gave it an overall rating of 3.5!!  No mixed drinks!!

FOS College Basketball!

Arkansas 71 LSU 65

Mike Anderson’s Razorbacks are standing on the good side of the NCAA bubble but one bad loss and the NIT will be an option!!  Kids 12 and under received a free hog hard hat upon entrance into Bud Walton arena!!  The Hog hard hats can be worn around games where shots miss the basket so badly that children may need protection on their head!!  Thus the Hog hard hats free giveaway promotion!!  

Oklahoma 77 Iowa State 70

Iowa State guard Talen Horton-Tucker and Oklahoma State Lindy Waters III ended up in a kicking battle when they  fell to the floor on a charging call on Waters!!  The head ref gave them both 2 Ts, one for fighting and another for kicking on the playground!!  True story!!

Oklahoma State 65 Kansas State 60

OSU Coach Boynton is one of the shining star coaches in the Big 12 and America!!  Beating the Wildcats in front of 5 thousand fans at Gallagher Iba Arena is a good win in front of a disappointing crowd!!  OSU Transfer Guard Curtis Jones and Junior ’Crime Dog’ Cameron McGriff led the Cowboys with double-figure scoring!!  These two are setting a foundation for good things to happen in Coach Boynton’s Cowboy future!!

Tulsa 71 Wichita State 67

Tulsa travels to a tough place to play and an even yuckier place to live, Wichita, KS!  My wife is a Wichita State Shocker Grad and my son played football at Friends University in Wichita!!  I still have an FU football cap!!  The Shockers are rebuilding but the Golden Hurricane are on the road and playing any of the 343 Division I teams on the road is a mind twister for Coach Haith and the ’Cane Squad!!

Kansas 71 Texas Tech 66

Jayhawks and the Red Raiders will see each other again in the postseason conference tourney!!  Throw in K State and you will have a nice three-way for the regular season and postseason 

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Florida 88 Kentucky 83

The Gators can be scary on their home court swamp!!  Florida Senior guard KeVaughn Allen scored 21 points and had 6 assists as Florida overcame Kentucky!!   Kentucky coach Calimari was upset with the young man that cleans the floor under Kentucky’s basket!!  Evidently the kid on his team’s  basket was talking to a Gator Cheerleader and was not cleaning his basket floor!!  Calimari took a dust mop and showed the lover boy how to do it!!  The young man was replaced by a nerdy looking future accountant!!  

ORU 77 Indiiana Purdue FW 74

ORU leading scorer Emmanuel Nzekewesi is playing at a 20 points and 10 rebounds pace at home!!  Once they get on the ORU basketball bus or plane the whole team starts sucking!!  Their crosstown buddies on 11th Street do the same fricking thing!!  ORU beats Indiana Purdue Freak Out with a strong second half performance!!

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